Essays about: "Chile"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 112 essays containing the word Chile.

  1. 1. Bearing of the International System in a south-south cutting-edge free trade agreement: The case of the free trade agreement between Uruguay and Chile

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studier

    Author : Amaranta Villarreal Nansen; [2019-02-04]
    Keywords : free trade agreement; development; International System; policy space; kicking away the ladder;

    Abstract : Uruguay signed a cutting-edge free trade agreement with Chile that triggered political discussions on the impact it would have on Uruguay’s development. This agreement is the first bilateral trade instrument framed under Uruguay’s current international economic and trade insertion strategy, and serves as a case study to examine the bearing of the International System on that strategy, on the instruments Uruguay pursues to further it, and on the country’s future development prospects. READ MORE

  3. 2. Women & Social Action - Tracing Women’s Experiences of Activism in the Chilean Women’s Movement

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Kultur och samhälle

    Author : Desislava Kostadinova Bekyarova; [2019]
    Keywords : Chile; Identity; Networks; Narrative Analysis; Women’s Movement;

    Abstract : The Chilean women’s movement has a long history of challenging state power. The role women played in the opposition against Augusto Pinochet’s authoritarian regime has fascinated researchers. There also seems to be a consensus, whereby the contemporary movement is considered to be divided. READ MORE

  4. 3. Selection into self-employment: gender differences in Chile

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för nationalekonomi och statistik (NS)

    Author : Calle Löf; [2019]
    Keywords : Predicted earnings differential; self-employment; gender; Chile;

    Abstract : This study examines gender differences in the choice to become self-employed in Chile,focusing especially on the influence of the predicted earnings differential between selfemploymentand wage-employment. By estimating selectivity adjusted incomeequations, earnings in both sectors are predicted for each individual and the difference isused as an explanatory variable in a probit model where the dependent variable measuresself-employment status. READ MORE

  5. 4. Memory struggles in Chile 45 years after the coup. A Critical Discourse Analysis on the role of the press.

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Kultur och samhälle

    Author : Raquel Ávila Dosal; [2019]
    Keywords : memory studies; communication for development; Chile; dictatorship; critical discourse analysis;

    Abstract : This Degree Project (DP) deals with the discourses about collective memory in Chile 45 years after a coup d’état that gave way to a dictatorship that lasted for 17 years, during which serious human rights violations were committed. How different actors relate to this traumatic period shows how this is a field of struggle in contemporary Chile. READ MORE

  6. 5. Not One (Woman) Less Social Media Activism to end Violence Against Women: The case of the Feminist Movement ‘Ni Una Menos’.

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Kultur och samhälle

    Author : Cecilia Sjöberg; [2019]
    Keywords : Violence against women; Feminism; Feminist movements; Social Media Activism; Digital activism; Networked social movements; Information and Communication Technologies; Collective action.;

    Abstract : The struggle to end violence against women and girls has long been a priority topic for women’s and feminist movements in Latin America. Lately, since the changes in the new media landscape (Castells 2015; Lievrouw, 2013) with the increased use of information and communication technologies (ICTs), such as social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter, the way women and feminist movements advocate their intentions are changing (Harcourt, 2013; Mathos, 2017). READ MORE